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Example sentences for: nickname

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The team had previously been known by the memorable designation Beaneaters , which, in a curious way, might also be considered an Indian nickname.
smork, n . the nickname given to one or more Caucasian prisoners who were slowly burned to death--and possibly eaten--by Negro prisoners during a riot.
Robert Truehaft actually was a Communist--long before his association with Hillary; "Tommy the Commie" was a McCarthyite nickname for a Yale professor who never was.
I found suggestions that it is a “metonymic occupational name,” an English nickname or an anglicized form of a Gaelic personal name meaning `life.
The smooth-bore muskets used during colonial, revolutionary, and frontier days were known as Brown Besses, hence the nickname Betsy .